Someone JUST posted something about doing just that... I didn't subscribe to it though so it's lost in the sea of the 8 forums. Can try a few searches to locate it.

It worked with some caviates. Since MS removed a lot of functionality from being usable by the explorer shell, there are several apps you need to create your own shortcuts to instead of using the built in ones.

THAT I think is going a little too far. It so screws with the system as a whole, might as well stay on the sane and stable 7. Adding a third party start orb makes complete sense though and is usually a lot less traumatic to the system.

[Edit]Looked a bit and couldn't find it, it was a link to an off site web page though, maybe google for it instead?[/edit]

Change menu background color in win 8.1? NOT Start menu...I actually have no beef with the Win 8.1 Start menu, but the colors of the regular desktop environment are killing me. Namely, the weird, off-off white of the menus. The High-Contrast White option under Personalization gives me the right color for the menu backgrounds but everything else about the...

Start Menu Context Menu CustomizationHi All,
I have seen screenshots where people have network connections when they right click on the start menu. I am trying to figure out how to add it.
Any ideas?
My Context Menu: http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/11/Capture.png
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Customization

Aston menu works fine as start menuToday I found a good solution to the start menu problem in windows 8.
Aston menu worked fine and very good and returned the familiar customized XP look and feel
I Changed the program Icon and pinned it to task-bar and moved it to the extreme left
you can try it for 30...

Customization

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